DENBIGH MENTAL INSTITUTE

North Wales Hospital

North Wales Hospital locally known as Denbigh Mental

Some history.

Denbigh Mental is a Grade Two Listed Building. Designed by architect Thomas Fulljames, building started in 1844 and was completed in 1848. Once a hospital for up to 200 people with psychiatric illness, by the early 1900s is housed approximately 1537 patients.

Originally built to accommodate between 60 to 200 patients, the hospital originally had its own farm and gasworks. Planned for closure by Enoch Powell during the 1960s, it was closed in sections from 1991 to 1995.

Notable Patients - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, nonconformist and Christian Pacifist Politician, died there in 1949.

Following fires in February 2017 and July 2017, sections of the hospital will be demolished due to being beyond repair.

On the 4th April 2018 at around 12:30PM fire fighters rushed to the site to the scene of a huge blaze at a noticeable section of the hospital, this was weeks after new plans to rescue the building and turn it into a luxury hotel were unveiled.

Paranormal series Most Haunted done a week of live broadcast here from 25th - 30th October 2008.

This was the most epic explore to date the chapel was amazing still had all the wood beams for the roof inside. Next stop was the morgue and from there we made our way around the site. In a bad state of decay and been trashed. While we were there and taking photos some kids came onto site and were walking across wooden floor beams that we would not even chance! Amazing place yet again another site that in certain places you could feel the sadness radiating through the walls.